Obama to tout anti-terror achievements
By Gabby Morrongiello (@gabriellahope_) • 12/6/16 9:32 AM
President Obama will discuss on Tuesday the progress he believes his administration has made combatting overseas terrorism and encourage his successor to develop a "sustainable" counterterrorism policy similar to his own.
In his final speech dedicated to national security, Obama will reflect on what he considers to be his strongest accomplishments in the corresponding arena. These include his work to improve transparency in government in relation to counterterrorism efforts and his approach to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters ahead of the president's remarks.
"Tomorrow he will very sharply want to summarize the progress that has been made ... and the core mission when he came into office of dismantling al Qaeda," Rhodes said. "He'll certainly talk about the ways in which the threat has evolved, [and] then he will review the progress of the counter-ISIL campaign."
The speech, which Obama will deliver at MacDill Air Force base in Tampa, Fla., was planned long before he knew the outcome of last month's election, Rhodes said. It comes just one week after a radicalized Muslim student at Ohio State University injured 11 of his peers when he attacked a crowd of pedestrians on campus with his car and a butcher's knife, and months after an American-born man who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State gunned down 49 people at an Orlando nightclub in the deadliest domestic terror attack since Sept. 11, 2001.
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